Lars Walker is a native of Kenyon, Minnesota and a graduate of Augsburg College, Minneapolis. He has a Master's in Library & Information Science from the Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. He grew up on a farm, and has worked as a crab meat packer in Alaska, a mail clerk, an administrative assistant, a radio announcer, and an academic librarian. He is editor of the Journal of the Georg Sverdrup Society, and is a Viking reenactor and Norwegian translator. He has renounced all claims to the throne of Norway.
Publishers: Baen Books, Nordskog Publishing
Novels published to date: Erling's Word (1997), Wolf Time(1999), The Year Of the Warrior (2000), Blood and Judgment (2003), West Oversea (2009), Troll Valley (2012), Hailstone Mountain (2013), Death's Doors (2014), The Elder King (2019), King of Rogaland (2022)
The right photo below is me with Erling Skjalgsson's memorial cross, in the Stavanger city museum. Thanks to Philip Patton for the photo of the left.
Lars Walker, author of historical fantasy and viking reenactor, is the subject of larswalker.com. You can write him directly at lars [at] larswalker.com. You may be able to reach him right now by commenting on his blog, Brandywine Books. Header photo of ships on the water by Marit Synnøve Vea.